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One for the older gamers out there, younger games comments are still welcome though.

Does any one still use the term Beardy these days in reference to armies that build purely to win with out thinking about the general fluff?

Are there any old gaming slang terms that you remember using when gaming in your younger days which have fallen in disuse?

Or any new ones that you use?

(Please keep it as clean as possible)

In answer to your first question: yes.

We played a 2v2 game a while ago where the two Chaos players had 3 lash princes between them.

"Cheese! Cheese! Beard dipped in cheese! Cheddar in my beard!"

Hurray for lash prince lol

I hate it when GW makes certain codices to where you have to build your army one way to make it playable. Total broken lameness. SO! Any Chaos players wanna know how to build and army full of total ass kickery? A dual lash prince with as many obliterators as you can take. And then uh.... I dunno just fill the rest lol

KingCracker wrote:And then uh.... I dunno just fill the rest lol

the answer to 'the rest' is plague marines

i think beardy is strictly a UK thing. the term de jour across the pond is cheesy or broken (hear both lots). occasionally, i hear people wrongly conjugate it ("that unit is broke") but i don't condone that rampant misuse of an already difficult language.

Pie Plates
Wisconsin Cheddar
Death Star Unit
Shenanigans (IE: cheating)
Elastic Tapemeasure
Anything but a '1'
Hammer unit


Just a few 40k phrases that I still use.

I despise gamer slang, though I find myself using it now and then. You're all to blame. (You know who you are.)

Dan Abnett language is a favorite gamer slang around my area... such as "feth" "gak" and "honey-sauce".

I don't remember seeing honey-sauce in the books, who says that?

KingCracker wrote:
I hate it when GW makes certain codices to where you have to build your army one way to make it WINNABLE.

There we go fixed it for you. Woohoo my first fix. I really hate it when people do that.

but anyway yes I do alot.

Gamer Slang:

Coming along like forty -- Never used by nongamers that I have ever met, but means 'going as planned'. Comes from (I have been told) factory workers who make I-beams in central Illinois. A factory specific phrase that bled out into gaming.

Quatro's slowed -- Specific to my hometown. Stems from no less than five incidents over the years (that I am personally aware of) where a pizza place was unable to locate the address of a gaming store which was across the street from them. We once had a phone conversation that went:

"Well, we cant find your store."
"Look out your window. See the guy on the second floor waving?"
"Yes."
"That's me. Bring my my damn pizza."

Cracked -- Broken, 'beardy', unbalanced.
Crack -- Material which makes something unbalanced. Use: "Jaws of the Wolf Lord is total crack!"
Saluki Math -- Also local, this means math that is wrong. Blatantly. A reference to the local college, and the low regard that townies have for some of the students.

As a side note, I have noticed several gaming standards that have fallen by the wayside. When playing in a D&D game recently, two of the gamers (who were very young) looked at me askance when I asked if we had a ten foot pole in the group. Or bootblack. I ask you, what good D&D'er doesnt have a ten foot pole and a tin of bootblack on every character? Seriously. They didnt even know what it was for.


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Twink, Minmax -- To combine your forces in such a way as to achieve maximum effect, even to the point of using rules in ways they were never intended. A family member insists to me that 'twink' is a police specific slang for a child molester.

While the above is in more common use, I think the usage has changed somewhat. Nowadays it seems like twinking is just another accepted play style. Whereas back when I first started it was a hated and reviled thing.

Reaver83 wrote:

KingCracker wrote:And then uh.... I dunno just fill the rest lol

the answer to 'the rest' is plague marines

The correct answer is
NOISE MARREEENS! HUR!

I find myself using Uber alot for example, "That is a uber unit" or "She has an uber "

I used the term "beardy" once and got looked at funny for it.

One of the local slangs my gamer group has is "F*** your spears!", a phrase one of my allies exclaimed in reference to the fact that my brightlances and singing spears can't ever seem to do anything useful. We now use it to describe any really lousy eldar shooting phase.

We also refer to the start of every Necron turn as the "necron cheating phase" (wbb) and any farseer power as the "eldar cheating phase"

also, members of my gamer group tend to pronounce WYSIWYG as "whizzeewig". Might not be slang but at least its entertaining.

Sarigar wrote:
Shenanigans

To quote one of the best movies on earth:

I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says, " Shenanigans."



I use some street slang mixed with gamer slang, sometimes i will refer to models in Spanish slang or dirty words...

Sanchez, I had no idea you were mexican....

"Fething Elves..." gets said a lot in our Warhammer Quest campaign.

And "It's rape time!" (which is more of a Silent Hill joke that crossed over into 40K) whenever something bad is about to happen to someone in close combat (like when the Terminator Captain found himself surrounded by two Slaaneshi Dreads and a Slaaneshi Daemon Prince). Nearly killed a friend of mine with that he was laughing so hard (and choking to death on coke).

Tau=Commie scum.
Beardy, broken, bent.

Calling people pimps seems to be popular too. And for some reason pronouncing Belial as Beriar.

Gamer slang, like all cliches, depicts an absence of thought. Avoid using it.

waaaagh

I hate that one..

Failmeltas. when you miss with a meltagun/multimelta, term came about during 'ardboys preliminaries when i failed to kill a single vehicle (didnt even get a single roll on the damage table, everything missed/failed to pen) with over 25 melta shots (and a like number of assault cannon shots) within 12" I started calling them failmeltas and it just stuck.

MISSSSSSSile launchers. came about in relation to a guy who plays deathwing, all of his cyclone missile launchers miss whenever he calls them "missile launchers", but they tend to hit when he calls them "cyclones" so we all say MISSSSile launchers to goad his guys into missing.

beakies
fish'eads
tin'eads
spikies
nuns with guns (or bolter bitches)
pie plate
pie plate slinger
cheesy
smells like gouda

I've got the local IG commanders calling their heavy bolters , big shootas
I hear "wizzywig" around here alot as well

Nurglitch wrote:Gamer slang, like all cliches, depicts an absence of thought. Avoid using it.

Slang != Cliche

Please stop trolling. You know better.

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I find myself using the term "soak", meaning to absorb something negative, which I originally heard in gaming terms somewhere ("He soaked the hit"). I usually use it in financial terms, ie soaking the cost for something.

WYSIWYG is what "wizzywig" is, and it's an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". That's been around for quite a while, and isn't specific to gaming. I first heard about it with regards to word processing/publishing on computers back in the late 80's.

Iorek:

No, I'm not trolling. I am actually of the opinion that slang is cliched and shouldn't be used. I'd like to point out that my posts, such as they are, avoid using gamer slang where possible. Likewise, I try to avoid using cliches.

If you have a problem with my opinion, feel free to argue against it, but I'm not going to change it just because you feel that my opinion isn't honestly held.

I use slang with my group and don't reguarly bring it out.

I use "Janky" "That's total Jank" or "Cheese" combined with expletives, when something seems "broke".

Of course, "sick" is used alot. When something is amazing.

"Droppin plates"

"God roll" When there is no way they made all the saves they shouldn't have. (I have seen 7 sixes rolled for a 5+ Invul, they should of been dead, dang Summoned Demons.)

"Crap rollin" or getting "Crap rolled" for not rolling the dice well. Usual excuse for not winning the game.

When rolling for a plasma weapon or Kustom Mega Blasta I have a tendancy to yell "Ima firin' mah lazar!"

I would argue that slang is just a subset of language. Like all languages, it's a shared set of symbols that allow a group to share common experiences. Thus, for small communities, slang is a way of expressing shared bonds and experiences.

Of course, that's ignoring the fact that we're a bunch of gamers discussing gaming slang, not a group of linguists spanking each other off.

We pronounce Bell of Lost Souls' acronym, BOLS, phonetically. Balls. Heh.

Anytime a unit does something stupidly heroic that's bound to fail, we use the expression "charging the pikemen," from Shogun Total War where I was playing a game, and my cavalry insisted on charing yari samuri head on, to predictably bad results.